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=Welcome to my Wiki that is designed to bring 21st Century Literacy standards to my learning community!=
 * My vision of a school library media program. **

My vision of a school library media program is one based on collaboration with all members of the learning community, leadership, and technology. The effectiveness of the program will be based on the effectiveness I have in building the relationships within the total learning community. The library media program will be in the center of the curriculum and meet the needs of everyone in the learning community. I want to teach teachers to access and use the same electronic resources that I am using and the students are using. The school library media program is the chief motivator in moving students in the 21st century and empowers them with the tools to gain information from a variety of resources and continue to be lifelong learners.

All library media programs need access to materials, like we all need a shirt. I might need help zipping my shirt, likewise, instruction needs to be given on how to use the materials or programs. I might need a shirt that fits looser in the shoulders because I have broad shoulders, so the programs offered by the library media program need to be designed to fit the specific learners and learning strategies that have been proven to meet the needs of those individual students. The professional guidelines set the parameters like all shirts have a place for your arms like sleeves. ||
 * = ** My Analogy of Library Media Program **  = ||
 * A school’s media program is molded to fit the school’s mission and program. A school’s demographics and assessment data vary from area to area. There is no //'one size fits all'// category. Everyone needs clothes but most of us are going to wear different sizes and most items are going to fit us in various ways. We all need the library media program, but some of us may need more knowledge in specific areas, such as geography or vocabulary, etc… We all need a shirt, some of us need a bigger one, some of us need a smaller one. The planning for the Library Media Center is the same.